John Emmerson Batty Primary School
Long Term Plan/Scheme of Work
Geography
(Year A)
Year
Nursery
UFS
1
2
3/4
5/6
Skills and
Processes
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Interpret a range of geographical information including maps: diagrams, globes and aerial photographs.
Collect analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through fieldwork.
Develop knowledge of the locations of globally significant places, both terrestrial and marine.
Understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human features.
Understand the key physical and human features of the world and how these are interdependent and
change over time.
Locate globally significant places including their defining physical and human characteristics.
Communicate geographical information through numerical and quantitative skills and writing in length
Skills & Processes involved – Indicated by term or C for continuous
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Children will earn about similarities and differences between their community and the community of others.

To show care and concern for the environment.

Children will comment and ask questions about aspects of their familiar world and the natural world beyond theirs.

To be able to talk about people beyond their environment.
Our Local Area
Hot and Cold Countries
Around the UK with Barnaby Bear
Talk about a location, representational
Seasonal and daily weather patterns in the
Name, locate, identify characteristics of
drawing of their house, map of journey to
UK, identify hot and cold countries in
four countries of UK and surrounding seas, 4
T2
school, local landmarks from an aerial view,
relation to equator, North and South Poles,
compass directions (N, S, E, W), directional
C
T2
T1
C
C
T2
T3
geography of their school and key physical
vocabulary
language to describe location of features
and human features of surrounding
and routes on maps
environment, consider contrasting locality
European Countries and Landmarks
Our Capital City
Contrasting Locations – Australia
Locate UK and home countries, identify
Understand and use vocabulary related to
Identify UK and contrasting location –
continents and oceans, UK surrounding seas,
compass points, name, locate and identify
Australia, name, locate and identify
T2
T2
local awareness and globally significant
characteristics of our capital city, use
characteristics of contrasting location,
C
T1
C
C
C
T3
T3
places
variety of sources to infer information,
recognise landmarks and basic human and
recognise landmarks and basic human and
physical features of Australia
physical features, vocabulary
Ancient Egypt
Vikings
Contrasting localities
Investigate different places, features
Locate where Vikings came from, locate
Awareness of how places relate to each
covered e.g. River Nile, importance of the
towns and villages, place names from Viking
other, use grid references to identify
River Nile in Ancient Egypt civilisation, why
origins, location of Danelaw
features or places, describe main physical
T1
C
T3
C
C
C
T3
places are as they are and how and why they
and human features, how people affect the
T3
change, aspects of physical geography
environment, features of localities influence
nature and location of human activities,
similarities between places
Victorian Industrial Revolution
The Mayans
Anglo Saxons
Locate countries and continents, accurately
Locate North and South America, identify
How Britain has influenced wider world,
name and locate cities within UK, compare
equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern
human geography including types of
maps from different times in history,
Hemisphere, Tropics of Capricorn and
settlements and place names, digital maps to
T2
T1
suggest reasons for changes
Cancer, major cities of modern Mesoamerica, locate settlements, key explorers of the
C
T1
C
C
T2
T3
T3
location of Mayan tribes, biomes, land height
past and their influences
and climate, man-made features, comparisons
in physical and human features between
Redcar and region of South America
John Emmerson Batty Primary School
Long Term Plan/Scheme of Work
Geography
(Year B)
Skills and
Processes
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Interpret a range of geographical information including maps: diagrams, globes and aerial photographs.
Collect analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through fieldwork.
Develop knowledge of the locations of globally significant places, both terrestrial and marine.
Understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human features.
Understand the key physical and human features of the world and how these are interdependent and
change over time.
Locate globally significant places including their defining physical and human characteristics.
Communicate geographical information through numerical and quantitative skills and writing in length
Skills & Processes involved – Indicated by term or C for continuous
Year
Nursery
UFS
1
2
3/4
5/6
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3

Children will earn about similarities and differences between their community and the community of others.

To show care and concern for the environment.

Children will comment and ask questions about aspects of their familiar world and the natural world beyond theirs.

To be able to talk about people beyond their environment.
Our Local Area
Hot and Cold Countries
Around the UK with Barnaby Bear
Talk about a location, representational drawing
Seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK,
Name, locate, identify characteristics of four
of their house, map of journey to school, local
identify hot and cold countries in relation to
countries of UK and surrounding seas, 4 compass
landmarks from an aerial view, geography of their equator, North and South Poles, vocabulary
directions (N, S, E, W), directional language to
school and key physical and human features of
describe location of features and routes on maps
surrounding environment, consider contrasting
locality
European Countries and Landmarks
Our Capital City
Contrasting Locations – Australia
Locate UK and home countries, identify
Understand and use vocabulary related to
Identify UK and contrasting location – Australia,
continents and oceans, UK surrounding seas, local
compass points, name, locate and identify
name, locate and identify characteristics of
awareness and globally significant places
characteristics of our capital city, use variety of
contrasting location, recognise landmarks and
sources to infer information, recognise
basic human and physical features of Australia
landmarks and basic human and physical features,
vocabulary
Stone Age (History Linked)
Romans (History Linked)
Contrasting Locations – London/Redcar
Describe and understand key aspects of human
That a map is a representation of an area,
Relate their own experience to the concept of
geography including: types of settlements and
Recognise some local features and locate them on
settlement, recognize that people have been
land use, know about Skara Brae, how small
a map, Find out about the local area through
moving between different areas for a long time,
communities develop into cities
written sources, Different kinds of written
and that some reasons for moving in the past
sources provide different information about the
were the same as those of people alive today.
local area, Develop skills of accurate observation
and recording, Make deductions from physical
evidence, Recognise that some questions can be
answered by looking at buildings and some cannot,
Find out information about the local area from
studying pictures
Greece (History Linked)
Rivers and Mountains
The Commonwealth (History Linked)
Geographical similarities and differences in
Identify and sequence key aspects of The Water
Creation of the Commonwealth, identify and
human and physical between contrasting
Cycle, human uses of water as part of the cycle,
locate member countries, development of
localities, locate Greece and Ancient Greece, city
journey of rivers, investigations, geographical
multicultural society through human geography
states, climate, land height, landmark of Greece
features of streams and rivers, locate route of
local river, what people use rivers for
1
2
3
4
C
T2
T2
T3
C
T1
C
T2
T3
C
T3
T1
T2
C
T2
C
5
6
7
C
T2
T2
T3
C
C
C
C
C
T3
C
C
C
T2
T1
C